my own lyin’ eyes

it's a beautiful day www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt9...

for the reasons set forth in the accompanying memorandum opinion... storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

Former Federal Prosecutors and Human Rights Leaders Launch New Organization to Ensure Criminal Accountability for Public Officials in the United States ruleoflawproject.org/news/project...

I have the perfect place for you to set up shop: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nurembe...

In which Jeff Bezos explains what keeps him up at night. But no worry, the tech bros all know they're above accountability under law at this point. www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2...

happy metro hair toucher's trial in birginia eve to all who celebrate www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYt9...

i’m still laughing about mr. obama’s joke at the correspondent’s dinner must be more than a decade ago about the end of the republic. guy really got some jokes.

Here are three ways the charges against Nikki Floris and Bradley Benavides -- the former FBI agents charged on Friday -- help Russia. emptywheel.net/2026/10/25/t...

is our algorithmz learnding?

turns out most of the astronomers have been gaslighting us all along

these new telescopes are something else!

the faceswap tool never lets me use an image of chairman mao but consistently balks claiming it is a taboo class of image that it clearly is not.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jVHX...

So in a huge surprise to absolutely no one, it turns out that NIH director Jay Bhattacharya's new journal based on the premise of letting his friends and only his friends publish essentially whatever they want is full of crackpot nonsense from retired cranks.

Machines cannot peer review "better." Folks "AI"/LLMs are text matching programs. There's no "there," there. No "thinking," no context awareness, no nothing.

If you travel on Ft Myer Dr, Wilson Blvd, Eads St, George Mason Dr, or Route 1, share your insights today. Parts of these streets are new to the High Injury Network (the 6.6% of streets where 51% of crashes happen), and they are being considered for priority fixes! susmo.org/high-injury-...

The title in Mahogany Browne's poem is very unsettling The idea that the hands are a chorus that keeps repeating The matter of fact recounting of inter-generation abuse, without blame or excuse, is unsettling too hands sliced through the air like a switch #poetry #poemoftheday #blackhistorymonth

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if he’s as gripped by dementia as appears to be commonly understood, is he still capable of lying?

now that we've got fecund billionaires, can we rethink that bills of attainder thing?

undorsed

extra extra oomph

eBay of pigs

Going for broke

what did they think they were making?

winston smith'd that shit

"A BBC investigation has found evidence that Sudanese paramilitary fighters systematically destroyed el-Fasher's healthcare system during their long siege and subsequent takeover of the city in Darfur a year ago." www.bbc.com/news/article...

“The Dutch East India co had a standing army & fought nation-states. Elon is already crossing into this territory w/ geo-political use of Starlink...” - Josh Clemans in 2024 (think he meant it as a compliment, not a criticism; at the time, he was at New Founding—backed by Marc Andreessen) 1/

Off the coast of Patagonia, marine biologists have observed a giant phantom jellyfish with juvenile rudderfish hitching along for a ride down to the deep. This is a rare pairing that has never before been documented in this part of the ocean! 🧪 esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

mute a lie. mute all lies.

BREAKING: We're back at the D.C. Circuit for 149 former judges, asking the full court to rehear Anthropic's case Their point is simple as The Pentagon can't stamp "national security" on a decision & put it out of reach of the courts @democracydefendersfund.org & Gibson Dunn 👇- TN

cuck is an incongruous verb in sentences featuring incel as subject/object

Maybe he should have read our three papers on this from 14, 11, and 11 years ago...and hired me. Please tell him I'm available for a job... before GM kills everyone. posr.org/w/images/a/a... and ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/706... and ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/731...

BREAKING: SCOTUS rejects Trump admin's request to allow it to end gender-affirming medical care in prisons — a significant, if tentative, rejection of one of the admin's most extreme anti-trans arguments. Only Thomas and Alito noted they would have granted the stay. More to come: www.lawdork.com

I spent last night writing about Trump's waterfront land grab in DC. Things are crazier than I thought, and MAGA has the National Park Service seriously gaslighting the public over it. 🧵

fun fact: it's actually an alpaca

On brand

Americanes!

of course the real story is the president's admission that that man had no value until he learned that he had value and then the president convinced himself he could see it too in that hot ass... or assumed that was an evaluation of worth that would appeal to his base

I have been trying to think of what Trump’s hideous “ballroom” project reminds me of — and I finally have it — it is Nicolai Ceausescu’s infamous and unfinished House of the People in communist Romania, which also brought awfulness to a lovely downtown.